Got curious and opened the X11 utility, what is it?

[doxavita]

Got curious and opened the X11 utility from Apps/Utilities/X11

a. First off, no harm done by simply opening it, right? (I just saw something that seemed like a sort of terminal window and immediately closed it and ended the X11 app.)

b. What is it for? what does it do?

Thanks

 

[Dave Braine]

Some non-Apple apps need X11 installed before they will run. It doesn't do anything buy itself. Gimp is one app that uses it:
http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

 

[John T]

b. What is it for? what does it do?

I assume you did the obvious, i.e. look in the X11 Help file?

 

[Macman45]

I assume you did the obvious, i.e. look in the X11 Help file?

All the help files are online now....They've been moving stuff around lately though. I use it for Gimp and that's about it.

 

[fat jez]

It lets you run programs on other Unix or Linux systems and have them open their interface on your Mac.

Right now I'm running a test tool on a Linux system in our computer lab and the gui is open on my MacBook Pro, using X11 to display it.